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New-to-Market North Fork Tavern c.1800, 349K
SO OFTEN ONE SEES listings that date houses inaccurately. Sometimes the listings claim the houses are much more recent than they are, sometimes older. In the case of this former tavern in Southold, N.Y.’s historic district, I wholeheartedly believe the … Continue reading
Posted in LONG ISLAND, NORTH FORK, PROPERTIES FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
Tagged Ackerly Pond, Southold, tavern
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North Fork Farmhouse Follow-Up 293K
SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO SEE FOR YOURSELF. That was the case with the Southold Victorian on the North Fork of Long Island whose listing I blogged about a few days ago. Even though it is more than an hour’s … Continue reading
Posted in LONG ISLAND, NORTH FORK, PROPERTIES FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
Tagged farmhouse, fixer-upper, gables, Long Island Sound, porch, Shelter Island, Southold, Victorian, vinyl siding, water view
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Victorian Farmhouse in North Fork 293K
HERE’S A BRAND NEW-TO-MARKET foreclosure, looking mighty cute — a classic Victorian farmhouse with a front porch and gabled attic. Makes me want to run right out to the East End of Long Island and take a look. It’s at … Continue reading
Posted in LONG ISLAND, NORTH FORK, PROPERTIES FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
Tagged East End, farmhouse, front porch, Long Island Sound, North Fork, Southold, Victorian
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The East End’s Early English Houses
I WAS SURPRISED this weekend to realize how many outstanding examples of English Colonial architecture remain on the East End of Long Island. Below, The Old House, Cutchogue While 17th century Dutch settlers in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley built … Continue reading
Posted in HISTORIC PRESERVATION, LONG ISLAND
Tagged board-and-batten doors, central chimney, clapboards, Cutchogue, diamond-paned casement windows, East End, East Hampton, English Colonial architecture, First Period architecture, fluted chimney, Home Sweet Home Museum, John Howard Payne, leaded glass windows, lean-to, LONG ISLAND, Mulford farmstead, National Historic Landmark, North Fork, ohn Mulford, saltbox, Southold, steep-pitched roofs, The Old House, vernacular, windmills
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